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Mark Haines

Posted inTamworth

Police racism marred train track case, inquest told

blankby AAPApril 4, 2025April 5, 2025

Investigators did not take the death of an Aboriginal teenager seriously after his body was found on Tamworth’s train tracks, his uncle has told an inquest.

Posted inIndigenous, Legal, Tamworth

Four decades of questions over teen’s train track death

blankby AAPMarch 31, 2025April 2, 2025

A friend of an Indigenous teenager whose body was found on train tracks near Tamworth 37 years ago has denied any involvement in his mysterious death.

Posted inIndigenous, Tamworth

‘We didn’t do it’: man denies rumours over teen’s death

blankby AAPOctober 29, 2024

A man has rejected “fanciful” rumours that he and his brother were involved in the death of teenager Mark Haines, whose body was found on train tracks in 1988.

Posted inGeneral News, Tamworth

Rumour of boxer’s role in teen’s death aired at inquest

blankby AAPOctober 28, 2024

After the body of a teenager was found on train tracks in regional NSW there were rumours a local boxer was involved, an inquest has been told.

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